Today's conversation with my friend Sam Faulhaber is a fun one. Sam is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt, Bodywork and Functional Mobility Specialist, Teacher and amazing women overall!
Today Sam and I discuss the many facets of learning to listen to and trust your body, an area in which Sam is for sure an expert in so many ways. Girlfriend and I can CHAT and you will find that here because it's a long one, but we were just warming up, HA! For more from Sam visit her account on Instagram and click the link in her bio! She's a super special lady and I love her.
Episode 80: Mercier therapy for fertility, conception and health with Dr. Jennifer Mercier
Dr. Jennifer Mercier is on the show today educating us on Mercier Therapy, a deep visceral pelvic manipulation of tissues and fascia to promote health AND help women conceive! Dr. Mercier is the creator of Mercier therapy. She is also a midwife, physician, massage therapist, entrepreneur, mom and all round bad ass truth speaker. Check out her documentary, The Shared Journey with Mercier Therapy. and more info on how to work with Dr. Mercier, here. You can also find Jennifer on Instagram. PLEASE share this episode with anyone you know undergoing IVF, considering conceiving OR struggling to conceive!
Episode 18: Mindset vs. Action for conquering MY injury and YOURS!
Today on the show we are chatting about that mind/body connection. Why? Because it has HUGE implications for coming back from any injury, PARTICULARLY those pelvic floor related ones. I'm sharing my own pelvic floor diagnosis and rehab journey on the episode today and giving you tips on how to train both the mind and the body to get cracking on your own rehab, growth and conquering process. Tune in! To grab my FREE breathing course, Better Than Kegels.
Episode 17: How to train with an over-recruited pelvic floor
Sarah is sharing her THREE strategies to help you get back to movement after discovering your have over-recruitment of the pelvic floor. Symptoms of over-recruitment include, but are not limited to: tailbone pain, piriformis pain, pelvic pressure and spasms, low back pain, leaking, constipation, tight achy hips and more! You DON'T want to miss this episode! For more from Sarah follow her on Instagram at @sarahsmithstrength. To grab her FREE digital course, Better Than Kegels-Breathe Like A Bad Ass, click this link.
Episode 16: Your Primal Pelvic Floor...and how to train it
Today we are diving into PRIMAL movement and WHY it's one of the most efficient and effective ways to train the pelvic floor. From breathing, to eye movement and head control, contralateral movements and pelvic floor responsiveness to stimuli, we are making sense of ALL the complexity that takes place in the body to make us strong and READY for life. Whether you have pelvic floor problems or not, you want to listen to this episode because this is NOT just about your pelvic floor, but about WHOLE BODY RESPONSIVE and balanced strength. To take my free digital course head to https://tinyurl.com/sarahbreathe ! That episode I mentioned with Jaimie Lee is Season 1, episode 25.
Episode 15 Strength Is Ageless with Ginny MacColl
Join us today as we here from Ginny MacColl, Ninja Warrior, Broadway performer, actress and all round bad ass. At 68 years old, Ginny is showing ALL women that NOT only is it essential that we strength train, but that STRENGTH is AGELESS! Ginny started strength training at 64 to get her first pull up, then went on to compete on American Ninja Warrior and star in a major motion picture alongside Diane Keaton. HELLO! Ginny is such an inspiration and she is both sharing her story of cultivating dirty strength while raising her kids in the mountains of Pennsylvania AND the health benefits of strength training-how it reverses aging. Don't miss this episode and PLEASE share with all the women in your life! For more from Ginny find her on Instagram or Facebook.
To enroll in my FREE online digital course, Better Than Kegels- Click here.
Episode 14 De-sanitizing your fitness practice, how to do it and why you must!
Today we are going deeper into the Dirty Strength philosophy and talking about the THREE ways to de-sanitize your fitness practice and why you want to do it. Sarah is sharing advice, information and helpful suggestions for getting started with this paradigm shift. It's time to get dirty, and less "perfect" y'all. Are you ready? Shoutout to Katy Bowman, Daphne Miller, and Kate Galliett who I mention on the show today! Checkout my FREE course. Breathe Like A Bad Ass-it’s BETTER THAN KEGELS!
Episode 13 The Dirty Work of Crushing Your Goals in 2020
Join Sarah as she talks about what you ACTUALLY need to do in 2020 to achieve your goals and make lasting change.
Sarah is sharing her FAVORITE tip for helping women discover the best place to put their energy to change their bodies and their lives.
To check out here FREE course, Breathe Like A Bad Ass, head here.
For more from Sarah head on over to Instagram!
Pillars of Female Strength with Kelly Manzone
Today on the show we are talking with Kelly Manzone, aka @kellsbells88 about non-traditional training methods that increase connection to movement and exercise. Kelly is a coach and trainer outside of Connecticut and travels around the world teaching steel mace/gada training, Indian clubs, stick mobility and so much more. Kelly's personal use of non-traditional training methods on top of her expertise in traditional exercise makes her a force and this force is helping to change the world of fitness for everyone, but especially women. Tune in to learn more about Kelly and the program/training philosophy that she is created, Pillars Of Female Strength.
To attend a workshop and learn from Kelly, click the link in her bio on Instagram!
Unlock Your Body. Get Off The Sidelines. Do Cool Things.
Chris Jones is an instructor at the Original Strength Institute in Fuquay Varina as well as the head of online coaching and the creator of the program,Unlock Your Body.
In this episode, Chris shares how the desire to do cool things and the process of training to be able to do them can be a HUGE game changer for not just your body, but your sense of self AS well as how you can bring others along with you on that journey. From BJJ to OS resets, skateboarding, mountain bike flips, playing with rocks and doing ALL the pushups and pull-ups, Chris shares how at 49, he's just getting started.
For more from Chris head to @butt2calveson Instagram or head on over to join Unlock Your Body.
Is self care for Christians? How can you stack self care practices to help start your day of strong and present?
Another Sunday, another short stack and today it's all about #selfcare, I know, so trendy. Sarah is sharing FIRST, whether self care is a Bible-supported concept-just scratching the surface here, and THEN how to make some of your most beneficial self care practices ACTUALLY happen! Check it! For more from Sarah, head to @sarahsmithstrength or sarahsmithstrength.com
Episode 9 Fitness For Females, How and Why It's Different
Today we are scratching the surface on programming for women. Should it be different than for men? If, then how? How do menstrual cycles and fertility factor into our exercise practices? Why? Tune in to learn more!
Books mentioned in this episode:
Taking Charge Of Your Fertility
For more from Sarah, head to Instagram.com
Episode 8: Becoming a warrior in body, and mind and soul
Our guest today is Victoria Islas of SteelMaceWarrior.com. Victoria coaches people in person and online to train with the steel mace. Today she is sharing how she got started with this unconventional training method, what it's done for her and why women should consider learning to work the mace. From dieting and restrictive mindset, to grief and and belief systems, we are talking about it ALL on the episode today.
For more from Victoria, head to @steelmacewarrior on all social media or SteelMaceWarrior.com where you can also email her!
Episode 7 Training For Looks, Is It Bad?
Is it wrong to train for aesthetics?
How does it impact our training when we do?
Tune in to hear all about Sarah's personal goals for her training and how she helps her clients achieve the goals they have for their bodies! For more from Sarah, head to Instagram and email her at sarah@sarahsmithstrength.com
Episode 6 Shortstack Sundays Series Mobility and God's master plan for worship
This episode is ALL about the health effect of movement in worship. the Bible tells us MANY times how to praise and worship God with our whole bodies. Tune into this episode to learn why and how you can do this and why all you movement geeks and fitness nerds are going to be into God’s master plan for how you’re to praise him!
Some of the scripture verses mentioned in the episode can be found below.
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The Lord is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation. He is my God and I will praise him.
Exodus 15:2
Revelation 20: 15 Talks about John’s visions
If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.
Matthew 13:41 explains that
The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers. 50 and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
In 1 John 5:11–12: it says that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. In him was life. So if you have him, you have life. If you reject him, you reject life. John 5:40: You refuse to come to me that you may have life. John 10:10: I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. John 10:28: I give them eternal life, and they will never perish.
And in Luke 7:36-50, the story of the sinful woman who is SO overwhelmed by the forgiveness and presence, keenly aware of her sin and what it meant for her in THIS LIFE, she shows the ultimate display of using her entire body to work Jesus.
She gets down on the floor, and cleans his feet with her hair, tears hands while kissing his feet.
At the end of the day we read in the Bible about Lifting our hands and our eyes to the Lord. (Psalm 95:1, Psalm 28:2).
Romans 12:1 tells us that in view of God’ss mercy we should offer our bodies as living sacrifices, THIS is our spiritual act of worship.
Episode 5 Episode 5: Harmful Fitness Fads Coming This New Year And What To Do Instead
Today our guest is Coach Luke Atchley! of Virtue Strength and Conditioning in Baton Rouge, LA.
Luke is an accomplished coach and gym owner that has spent 15 years in the fitness industry. He's also a new dad that is balancing his fitness/selfcare practice with #dadlife with the demands of owning a business.
In this episode Luke talks about the toxic messages and programs found in the fitness industry, ESPECIALLY as the New Year approaches. Come learn about fads and gimmicks that will leave you injured and burnt out come March and find out what to do instead.
Luke also shares how his faith impacts his personal mission in his business.
This episode is PACKED with LOTS of amazing info and perspective.
For more from Luke, head to @coachluke on Instagram or @virtuestrength as well as VirtueBR.
And for more from Sarah, head to @sarahsmithstrength on Instagram or Facebook and also on Pinterest.
Episode 4 Shortstack Sundays Series: Working out our salvation with fear and trembling
This is the first episode in a Sunday series strictly focused on issues of faith and salvation.
Today Sarah is chatting about the value and the mandate that is our call to "work out our salvation with fear and trembling", how it relates to fitness and HOW it helps us decide what to think about "celebrity" Christians.
From Kanye to Rachel Hollis, Joanna Gaines, we're talking ALL about discernment and personal responsibility in faith and fitness.
For more from Sarah, head to sarahsmithstrength.com
3. Breaking out of the exercise box to become bold, balanced and "drty" with Sarah Scozzaro
Today on Dirty Strength™ Radio, Sarah talks movement diversity, nature and becoming comfortable in your own skin and body with Ultra Runner, running coach and Restorative Exercise Specialist, Sarah Scozarro.
Sarah Scozarro is an accomplished certified personal trainer and coach.
She’s trained under Katy Bowman , has consulted for an NFL team and coaches clients from all over the world to do amazing things!
Sarah LOVES running, the outdoors, and running in the outdoors.
She can literally run for 50+ miles at a time, up mountains amidst bear, moose, mushrooms and more.
Today Sarah Scozarro shares her own struggles with injury and how her experience and education has fostered a greater understanding of the body's needs be it with new biomechanics or beneficial exposure to nature.
Sarah Scozarro is a guest that you don't want to miss!
For more from Sarah Scozarro, head to @drtyrunner on Instagram, or on Facebook AND at her website, drtyrunner.com.
2. Gut Health: The Three Things You HAVE To Get About Your Gut
Gut health is one of those topics that is EVERYWHERE these days…
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